Anyone else fine Eye colour genetics fascinating?

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Just randomly thinking about eye colours and the genetics behind them tonight. (I find genetics fascinating). What eye colour do you, your partner and children have? Anyone have rare occurrences ie: two brown eye parents having blue eyes child or 2 different coloured eyes etc.

I have blue eyes, DH has green eyes that occasionally look a bit orange/light brown depending on lighting. DD has Grey eyes - they look blueish most of the time, grey when she wears dark clothes or at night and greenish in photos. Out of all our eye colours I like DD’s the best as they look particularly striking when they are ‘grey’.

My parents, blue and light blue
Me, light blue
DH hazel
DC1 Hazel
DC2 one light blue and the other light blue with a hazel streak.

Dh has brown/hazel eyes
I have rather unusual blue with a very dark blue outside fading to a browny yellow around the pupil () - but seriously, people have stopped me in the street to complement my eyes
Our two Ds both have brown eyes but our youngest has a dark brown outer ring, the older just has solid dark brown

My dd has blue , her father has brown.

I'm saving this thread to read later, fascinating!

DT2’s geneticist has recently done a test to see if the twins are identical and I said surely they can’t be because they have different colour eyes (one brown, one blue) but she said that in some cases identical twins do have different colour eyes. Makes no sense to me!

I have very green eyes. They're dark green.
Partner has green/brown
DS has blue at the moment but they could change

Dm hazel
Df dark brown
Me dark brown
Dh blue grey
Ds dsrk brown
Dd lightbrown middle, blue grey main part and dark blue outer ring

When i ran my dna through the beta eye colour calculator, my eyes came out looking like dds

I was watching Doctor Who last night and thinking how Amy Pond has the most stunning green eyes. I've always thought of actual green eyes as a bit of a myth.

Going back to your question i have a blue eyed dd - my eyes are hazel and her dad's are brown. However, dd has a ring of brown around her pupils. This appeared when she was a baby and i was sure her eyes were about to turn. They never did. Is this heterochromia or whatever its called?

Me- grey/blue
DH- hazel/green mix throughout the eye
Dc1- clear blue
Dc2- stunning heterochromic green/hazel eyes. Unlike her dad the colours are clear rings and the outer ring can be practically gold- in the right light this bit is all you can see. She had black eyes when she was born, incredibly dark.
Dc3- denim blue.

I love all the different ways our genes have combined. The kids all have different hair/eyes/skin tone but are still unmistakably related.

Sorry I meant two blue eyed parents having a BROWN eyed child. It's genetically highly unlikely.

@xSharonNeedlesx Two blue eyed parents don't generally carry a brown eyes gene in the same way a brown eyed person can carry a hidden (reccesive) blue gene. I think there is very unusual genetic variation that is an exception to this though.

Interestingly hazel/green eyes work in a separate way to the brown/blue colours so can pop up all over the place.

My grandparents, parents, siblings , husband, myself and children all have bright blue eyes. Same for my husband side too.

It is a fascinating science.

Me: light brown/hazel/yellow/green -it changes (!)
My mum: dark brown
DF: blue
DD: light green
DS: turquoise with a hazel ring around pupil
My ex (their father) blue.

I have blue/green eyes and DH has blue. DS is 8 months and his eyes have been very very dark Navy blue from birth but have now changed to very very dark brown. MIL and BIL both have brown eyes but not dark like DS. I wonder if they will lighten as he gets older but I hope not as they are a gorgeous colour with his very blonde hair!

My mother has sectoral heterochromia. Blue eyes with a pizza slice of brown in one.

I believe if it's in rings it's called central heterpchromia.

Dad Dark Brown
Mum 1 Blue 1 Green
DB1 Blue
DB2 Hazel/Green
Myself Dark Brown
DB3 Light Brown
DB4 Dark Brown

Ex Blue
DS Emerald Green
DDIL Dark Brown
DGD Brilliant Blue

Dad - brown
Mum - blue
Me - green
ExH - hazel
Dd - brown

I wish I had blue eyes. Most of my mums side has them.

Sadly my DB and I inherited my dad's green eyes, not quite as exotic.

That's fairly exotic.

OK game for everyone to play, when you watch TV today count how many actors have green eyes.

Boohooyoohoo I have green eyes and my DH has blue. We have 4 biological children, 3 have blue eyes and one has beautiful deep brown eyes. We were taught at school that wasn’t a possible combination but it sure is!

I'm loving the different tasks in shades here!!! And the description of colours! I think eyes are your best feature, and I think some of you mners agree.

I find really interesting, especially when at school you're told brown is the dominant gene. So looking at me and dp, you'd expect our son to have hazel eyes like me, but he doesn't they're blue.

DP has bright almost electric blue.
Mine as said are hazel but have green and amber rings.
DS is almost 3 months so his eyes are still technically settling, they swap from bright intense blue to a gorgeous denim, I hope they settle the darker blue.

Both of dps parents have blue eyes, his mums are very light almost grey, dad's bright like dps.

My dad's are a chocolate brown, so very dark, mums are a stormy grey.

DM - blue
DF - brown
Me - Blue
DH - brown
DS - Blue
DD - Hazel - she has my brother’s eyes

What amazes me is how many green eyed people there are, when green eyes are said to be incredibly rare, 2% of the population I think. Yet I know many green-eyed people, going from very pale green right through to a dark moss sort of green that look brown until up close.

In my family, my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles all had blue (and all dark haired weirdly). Myself and my siblings all have blue eyes, very similar shades. Of our 11 children only mine have light eyes (their dad had a dark hazel-green); I have one with sea green which are stunning, two bright blue and one my blue-grey. My nieces and nephews range from a dark chocolate brown to hazel and my youngest nephew has a dark grey which is so unusual.

I love eye colours, find them fascinating.

Every member of my whole family have blue eyes 😁

Good Irish and Scottish roots.
Infact I hardly know anyone with brown eyes! Off the top of my head I can think of three people.

@floravus

Possibly it was your green variant that passed on the brown. It is unlikely to be your oh as he is unlikely to have any brown to pass on (blue eyes usually means both chromosomes are blue in that individual)

I'd say at his age drastic eye colour changes will be unlikely. My son changed from grey/black to pale grey/green in a year and have stayed.

I was taught that 2 brown eyed parents can have a light eyed child but it's highly unusual that 2 light eyed people would have a brown eyed child.

I get confused what people define as green eyes as the example linked above I would describe as hazel. All my siblings and I have various shades of blue as do our parents, gps & aunts & uncles. I have central heterochromia so I have a pale gold/yellow ring that then turns green & darker blue on the outside. Depending on what I wear they look more blue or green. DC1 has started to develop this too I think. DC2 has hazel eyes like DH.

What I notice about blue eyes (this may be true for brown eyes) is that they definitely change colours throughout childhood & adulthood.

I'm dark brown, my ex is light brown. Ds1 is dark brown, ds2 is green! I love his 👀

sashh yes I suppose so, just compared to my DM's eyes they seem almost pedestrian

Dm - brown
Df - green
Me - green
Db - brown

Dh - hazel with a hint of green

Ds, only 8 months so may change green with blue around the pupil!